“I know we are consumed by this here, but it doesn’t consume my constituents when I go back home,” Sen. John Cornyn said. —Politico, July 16, 2019 Really, John Cornyn?
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Demand an impeachment inquiry; Trump’s overt racism; Lights for Liberty; MapTheVote training | Take Action Newsletter
Take Action Demand an impeachment inquiry now. Trump’s election in 2016 was the Molotov cocktail that ignited the Indivisible movement, including Indivisible Austin. Broadly speaking, our primary means of resisting Trump is congressional advocacy. For a lot of us, this strategy provides a coping mechanism: We can actually do something—that is proven to work. We …
37 Subpoenas | How your voices are making a difference
Republicans Against the Law A federal judge blocked Don John’s effort to switch legal representation in seeking to circumvent the Constitution by pushing through with adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census in violation of the Supreme Court decision disallowing it—followed by a second federal judge upholding that ruling. At which point, in yet another head-spinning 180, Donald once …
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Write your reps! Demand an impeachment inquiry now.
Trump’s election in 2016 was the Molotov cocktail that ignited the Indivisible movement, including Indivisible Austin. Broadly speaking, our primary means of resisting Trump is congressional advocacy. For a lot of us, this strategy provides a coping mechanism: We can actually do something—that is proven to work. We call our representatives! We track bills! We …
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5 things you can do to support an accurate census; Register voters in your district | Take Action Newsletter
Take Action Tell your reps that Trump is not above the law: He must accept the Supreme Court’s ruling on the census question When the Supreme Court ruled that the 2020 census must not include a question about citizenship status, most thought the battle was won. It should not surprise anyone that the President feels …
Donald’s masturbatory celebration of self | How your voices are making a difference
Republicans Against the Law After threatening to unconstitutionally delay the next census indefinitely because of the Supreme Court ruling against Don John adding a citizenship question, the question’s engineer, Wilbur Ross, announced that the government had dropped plans to add the question. The very next day, Donald called the report of his own flip-flop “FAKE …
Liberty & Justice for Migrant Families; Honor E. Jean Carroll; In Memoriam: Marguerite Ponder | Take Action Newsletter
Take Action Honor E. Jean Carroll and other survivors of sexual violence Writer E. Jean Carroll is the latest to accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault. This allegation would end any other presidency. And it should end this one, but likely won’t. The injustice of a serial sex criminal continuing to occupy in the Oval …
Plant your trees, warriors | How your voices are making a difference
Please indulge me in a word before we launch into all the ways your voices made a difference this week. “Sometimes you get the elevator; sometimes you get the shaft.” I first heard this saying in Austin writer Sarah Bird’s book The Boyfriend School. At the time I found it hilarious, but lately I’ve been finding …
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Stop playing games with kids’ lives | Take Action Newsletter
Join us for six nights of live readings of the Mueller Report. Begins Friday, June 28. Details below. Take Action Tell your reps: Stop playing games with kids’ lives (Much credit to Celeste Pewter) Trump is treating his border crisis like a game: He announced sweeping ICE raids in 10 cities, and then hours later …
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Rainbow-clad Kids at Drag Story Hour | How your voices are making a difference
Good global news—after authoritarian Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded a new election when a candidate from the opposition party won the Istanbul mayoral election, the opposition candidate won again—by an even wider margin, dealing a decisive blow to Erdogan’s human-rights-violating, oppressive ruling party. Republicans Against the Law Despite the unilateral efforts of Virginia’s Republican legislature, …
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